Dr. Kreiling teaches music history, music appreciation, class piano, and music fundamentals.

Before coming to Bridgewater State University, Dr. Kreiling taught music at the South Shore Conservatory of Music (Hingham, MA) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC); she also taught English at Western Carolina University (Cullowhee, NC).  She has sung with Musica Sacra (Cambridge, MA), the Asheville (NC) Symphony Chorus, and the Greensboro (NC) Symphony Chorus, and she performs occasionally as a pianist.

Dr. Kreiling’s articles on connections between music and literature have appeared in the academic journals Ars Lyrica and Mosaic, and she has given presentations at interdisciplinary conferences in London, Toronto, Honolulu, and other venues.  Additional research and writing projects have included program notes for concerts at BSU and elsewhere.

A prize-winning poet, Dr. Kreiling has published her work in several print and on-line literary journals, including 14 by 14, Contemporary Sonnet, Dogwood, The Edge City Review, Ekphrasis, The Evansville Review, The Formalist, London Poetry Review, The Lyric, The Pennsylvania Review, Phoebe, SLANT, Thema, and Think Journal.  She was a finalist for both the 2009 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and the 2010 Dogwood Poetry Prize.  Samples of her poetry on musical subjects can be found at the links below.

In the Alto Section (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony)
Piano Duo